This work shows how the true history of ancient Palestine has been
obscured by the search for Israel. The text outlines how ancient
Israel has been invented by scholars in the image of a European
nation state, influenced by the realization of the state of Israel
in 1948. It explores the theological and political assumptions
which have shaped research into ancient Israel by Biblical
scholars, and contributed to the vast network of scholarship which
Said identified as "Orientalist discourse". This study concentrates
on two crucial periods from the end of the late Bronze Age to the
Iron Age, a so-called period of the emergence of ancient Israel and
the rise of an Israelite state under David. It explores the
prospects for developing the study of Palestinian history as a
subject in its own right, divorced from the history of the Bible,
and argues that Biblical scholars, through their traditional view
of this area, have contributed to dispossession both of a
Palestinian land and a Palestinian past.
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